Turned shoe.



J. B. TILTON.

TURNED SHOE.

APPLICATION FILED D EC.27.1915. 1,2%L579@ Patented Oct. 2, 1917.

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J. B. TILTON.

TURNED SHOE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 27. 1915.

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JAMES B. TILTON, OI HAVERHILL, MASSACHUSETTS.

TURNED SHOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 2, 1917.

Application filed December 27, 1915. Serial No. 68,598.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES B. TILTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Haverhill, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Turned Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in shoes, and more particularly to that type known as turns.

The turned shoe, as ordinarily manufactured, is usually provided with a shank stiffener, which extends from the heel end of the shoe to points closely adjacent the ball. As it is necessary to insert this stiffener after the shoe has been turned, and, as the shoe has no inner sole to which the stiffener may be secured, usually, the only fasteners, which act to hold the stiffener in place, are the heel-attaching nails, which pass through the heel-portions thereof. The portion however, is not usually positively secured to the shank portion of the shoe, so that the stifi'ener has but little stiffening effect thereon. This objection has been, to some extent, avoided by driving nails through the shank portion of the sole, from the outside, into the stifl'ener and clenching the ends onto the inner side thereof, but this method is objectionable, as the heads of the nails, or rivets, employed, for this purpose, appear on the surface of the bottom of the shoe, and make it impossible to provide a uniform finish on the shank portion of the sole.

The objects of my invention are to produce a shoe, by which the shank stiflener is securely attached, throughout its entire length, to the sole, so that the shoe maybe made as stiff as desired, throughout its heel and shank-portion, to the ball, and to accomplish this result without, in any way, causing the shoe to be disfigured by fasteners, either on the inner or outer sides thereof.

I accomplish these objects by the means and in the manner hereinafter described, and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figures 1 and 2 are perspectlve v1ews of a sole and a shank stiffener, respectively, as prepared for the purpose of carrying out my invention.

of the stiffener in front of the heel,-

Fig. 3 is an edge view of the'shank stiffener.

Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the shoe before the stiffener has been inserted.

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal sectional view of the shoe after the stiffener has been inserted.

Figs. 6 and 7 are, respectively, top and bottom views of the shoe in the condition illustrated in Fig. 5.

Fig. 8 is a side elevation of a finished shoe.

Fig. 9 is a cross sectional view on the line 99 of Fig. 6.

Fig. 10 is a cross sectional view on the line 1010 of Fig. 8.

Fig. 11 is a cross sectional view, similar to Fig. 10, but showing a somewhat modified form of my invention.

In carrying out the process of making the shoe, the sole a is split, close to its grain surface, from the heel end to the ball, forming a thin tongue at on the grain side, such as is usually split off from the heel-portion of the sole and cemented to the breast of the heel, when a wood heel 'is attached.

After the tongue a has been formed, it is, for the sake of convenience, temporarily secured on the surface from which it was split off by a small amount of cement, and then the sole is channeled, the shoe is lasted, the upper c is sewed to the sole and the shoe is turned, all in 'the well-known manner in which the turn shoe is ordinarily manufactured.

A shank-piece b is provided, which may be constructed in various forms, but which preferably consists of a sole-shaped piece of leather, which extends from the heel end, tothe ball, and is reinforced in its shank portion by a narrow stiffening strip of steel d, and a filling strip (1, which may be of or leather board, and which the underside thereof. When I), is employed, before wood, leather are secured to a leather stiffener, as

the reinforcing strips are secured thereto, a

tongue I) is split off from its grain surface, from the heel end to points closely adjacent its front end, so that when said strips (Z, d are attached, the attaching nails will be clenched against; the surface from which the tongue I) was split.

The stifi'ener is then placed in position in the shoe and the tongues a and b are both turned back, so as to expose the surface from which they were split, as indicated in Figs. 5, 6, and 7, and, while held in this position, the stiffener is secured to the sole by two rows of stitches, which are formed therein throughout a substantial portion of the length of the reinforcing strips d, cl, said rows being arranged at each side of the metal strip (Z and extending through the sole to the surface from which the tongue a was split, so that the stitches are drawn tightly against both surfaces from which both tongues a, b, were split, and the intervening parts will be bound tightly together, as indicated in Figs. 6, 7, and 9.

The shank stiffener, together with the intervening reinforcing strips, will thus be securely attached to the shank portion of the sole, and, as the stitches are located at each side of the metal strip d, said strip will be securely held in position, so that it cannot subsequently become displaced when the shoe is worn. The tongues a and b are then cemented to the surfaces from which they wer split, thus completely covering the stitches e, as well as the fasteners of the reinforcing strips, as shown in Fig. 10.

If the heel, which is later attached to the shoe, is of wood, the heel-portion of the tongue (1' will be turned down and cemented to the breast of the heel, as shown in Fig. 8, otherwise it will be cemented to the heel seat.

- The stitches e are preferably formed in such position that they pass through the sole and shank between the stitches f, which attach the upper to the sole, and the edge of the sole, so that an additional securing means is provided between the upper and the sole, this arrangement being illustrated in Figs. 9 and 10, but, under some conditions, the space between the shoulder on the sole, against which the stitches are drawn, and the sole edge, is not sufiiciently wide to receive the stitches e, and, in such case, the stitches, as will be passed through the sole and stiffener, within the attaching stitches f, as indicated in Fig. 11. This lat ter arrangement has the advantage of more closely confining the strip (Z.

As the securing means between the stiffener and the shank of the sole will be completely covered by the tongues a, and b, when the shoe is finished, it presents the same outward appearance, as if the stiffener were not attached to the sole, so far as any disfigurement of the surface of is concerned.

It is desirable to have the shank of the sole rounded transversely under some conditions, and the supplemental reinforcing Strip d is employed partly for this purthe sole pose. All ossibility that this strip will subsequently iiecome displaced is avoided by the above-described method of manufacture.

When a leather-board shank stiffener is employed, so that the surface thereof cannot be split ofiF, the stitches will be drawn against its inner surface.

While stitches are more preferable, as a securing means for the shank stiflener, than any other securing means of which I am aware, I do not desire to confine my invention to the use of stitches, as distinguished from other forms of securing means which might be employed.

I claim 1. A turned shoe having a tongue split from the outer side of the shank portion of the sole thereof, a shank stiffener on the inner side of the sole, and fastening means disposed in the stiffener and in the portion of the sole from which the tongue was split, to secure the same together, said tongue being secured to thesurface from which it was split, to cover said fastening means.

2. A turned shoe having a tongue split from the outer side of the shank portion of the sole thereof, a shank stiflener on the inner side of the sole, a metal reinforcing strip disposed between the sole and the stifiener and extending throughout approximately the length of the shank, and a row of fasteners disposed in the stiffener and extending through the sole, to its split-oft" surface, at each side of said metal strip, said tongue being adhesively connected to said surface to cover said fastening means.

3. A turned shoe having a tongue split from the outer side of the sole from the heel end of the shoe to points adjacent the front end of the shank portion, a shankstifiener on the inner side of the sole, and fastening means disposed in the stiflener, and extending through the shank portion of the sole, to the surface from which the tongue was split, said tongue being adhesively connected to said surface.

4. A turned shoe having a tongue split from the outer side of the shank portion of the sole thereof, a shank stiffener on the inner side of the sole, a metal reinforcin strip disposed between the sole and the sti ener and extending throughout the length of the shank, and a row of stitches disposed in the stiffener, at each side of said metal strip and through the edge portion of the upper and extending through the sole, to its split-off surface, between the upper-attaching stitches and the sole edge, said tongue being adhesively connected to said surface to cover said stitches.

5. A turned shoe having a leather shankstiflener, extending over the sole from its heel end to points adjacent the front end of its shank, a tongue split from the inner side of the stifiener from its heel end to a point adjacent its front end and a tongue split from the outer side of the sole, from its heel end, to points adjacent the ball, fastening means extending through the stiffener and sole from one of the split-off surfaces to the other, said tongues being adhesively connected to the respective surfaces from which they were split.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my is name to this specification. 

